Set up location awareness

Sophos Endpoint Security and Control

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Set up location awareness

  1. Define the list of gateway MAC addresses or domain names of your primary locations. Typically, these are your office networks.

  2. Create the firewall configuration that will be used for your primary locations. Typically, this configuration is less restrictive.

  3. Create a secondary firewall configuration. Typically, this configuration is more restrictive.
  4. Choose a configuration to apply.

Depending on the detection method you are using, the firewall obtains the DNS or gateway address for each of your computer's network adapters, and then matches it against your list of addresses.

  • If any of the addresses in your list matches the address of a network adapter, the adapter is assigned the configuration for the primary location.
  • If none of the addresses in your list matches the address of a network adapter, the adapter is assigned the policy for the secondary location.

The active location is displayed in the Status panel in the Sophos Endpoint Security and Control window. If both configurations have been applied, Active = Both.

Important: The secondary configuration switches from Interactive mode to Block by default mode when both the following conditions are met:
  • Both locations are active.
  • The primary configuration is not interactive.
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